Tripwolf is a social travel guide website that allows users to share experiences, recommendations, and content to help others plan trips. Users can build personalized itineraries, read reviews and advice from other travelers, and book accommodations through partner sites. Tripwolf is free for users and generates revenue through advertising, partnerships, and potential sales of collected user data. It aims to be a comprehensive one-stop resource for travel planning by leveraging user-generated content.

3. USE AND CREATE CONTENT Before the travel: Use the Tripwolf data to determine your itinerary Before the travel: Use links to partners’ websites to book your flight tickets and hotel During the travel: Visit chosen places, Discover new ones, Take pictures. After (or during) the travel: Comment and rate the places you visited, Locate new places-to-go-to on the city map, Share your photos with other users… Choose your next destination

5. USER GROUPS SERVED Travelers preparing a travel (choosing the destination/places to visit, looking for advices, …) Travelers sharing about their own experience (sharing pictures, journal, advices, rates, …) Locals of the city (sharing their own experiences in it, looking for new – to them – places in it, … ) Non-travelers following a traveler they personally know (read his journal, enjoy his pictures, …) Non-travelers searching for the sensation of travelling (discover one’s adventures, enjoy pictures, …) Even if Tripwolf is a social travel guide, this does not mean that its users have to be travelers.

8. TWO OF ITS COMPETITORS World 66 at www.world66.com World66 too is a travel guide which content is generated by users. One difference lies in the possibility to post reviews without being forced to register and log in, the author then remains anonymous. World66 too proposes links to accommodation or transport websites. And it also shows a separate link for travel insurance. TourSpot at www.tourspot.mobi Although it requires users to pay for travel guide downloading, which are for the moment only covering cities of North America, I consider it as a competitor of Tripwolf . Tourspot sells guide books and has a community (on Facebook ) where users can share their own travel experiences. Its travel guides are accessible anytime and anywhere for the Targeted users, and their information are continuously updated.